Three Spirits

© Bruce Onobrakpaya

Three Spirits

Currently not on view

Princeton Collects

Three Spirits,

1969

Bruce Onobrakpeya, born 1932, Agbarha-Otor, Nigeria; active Lagos
2021-264

Information

Title
Three Spirits
Dates

1969

Maker
Bruce Onobrakpeya
Medium
Deep etching
Dimensions
image: 61 × 49.8 cm (24 × 19 5/8 in.) sheet: 77 × 57 cm (30 5/16 × 22 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Carolyn Barnes
Object Number
2021-264
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: Bruce Onobrakpeya August 1969 Imp.
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: 13/20 Three Spirits | A [upside down in circle] in graphite, lower center: Deep Etching
Culture
African, Nigerian
Type
etchings, prints
Materials
paper (fiber product)
Techniques
etching (printing process)
Subject
abstraction, spiritualism, figures (representations)

The artist;

October 1970, gifted to Dr. Carolyn Barnes;

2021-present, gift to the Princeton University Art Museum

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